A review by juliaosk
Survival in the Killing Fields by Haing Ngor

challenging emotional informative sad tense slow-paced

5.0

This was very hard and challenging book. I have read many difficult books, but I think this one is the most difficult one. I made me feel very sad so often, angry and I lost hope few times. 
But as challenging and difficult book this is, it is also so very important. This is a part of our history, it did happen, and not even so far back in history. I could not read much at a time in this book and at one time I had to take a few days off and read another book, the book kind of finished me! 

I first came across this book when travelling around Asia. I had recently been to the Killing Fields and S-21 prison when I saw this book on somebody's bunkbed in my room in a hostel. I checked it out online and knew I needed to read it sometime. Now was the right time.